Done playing with your Nexus 5? Maybe you want to send it in for warranty or sell it to someone? Either way, you should unroot it before doing so. Unrooting a Nexus device requires two main steps. Unrooting it, aka removing root access and any custom ROM, and relocking the bootloader, aka telling the device we no longer want to tinker with it. Thanks to WugFresh’s handy toolkit (that we used to root it and flash a custom ROM), we can easily unroot and lock the bootloader back with a few clicks. Here’s how.

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